James Fuller

A bustling seam-bowling allrounder with genuine pace and a taste for late-innings hitting, South African-born James Fuller, raised in New Zealand, made a county career in England.

In his early years in the UK, playing for Gloucestershire, he showed flashes of his talent as a tall, lively right-arm quick who could move the ball, but also earned infamy when he was hit for 38 runs in an over by Scott Styris in a T20 quarter-final in 2012. Still, that was the year Fuller hit his stride, taking 24 wickets in the four-day Championship.

When fit, he offered match-turning impact, as in 2015, when he took a first-class hat-trick and made key contributions in Gloucestershire's Royal London One-Day Cup win. At Middlesex, where he moved in 2016, he had some memorable moments, including a five-wicket haul on Championship debut, and a match-shaping lower-order partnership and six wickets against Somerset two matches later.

Fuller moved to Hampshire in 2019, where he became a fixture across formats as a flexible lower middle-order batter, energetic fielder, and a bowler used in bursts to attack or close out innings. In four county cricket seasons starting in 2022, he played the full complement of matches, taking 99 first-class wickets in all, and making over 350 runs each year. He also finished just shy of the top spot on the T20 Blast wicket-takers list in 2022, when his 23 wickets were instrumental in Hampshire's run to the title.

His career expanded into the franchise circuit in the 2020s. He appeared for Southern Brave in the Hundred, and featured in a growing list of overseas T20 sides, including Jaffna Kings (LPL), Sunrisers Eastern Cape (SA20), Karachi Kings (PSL) and Fortune Barishal (BPL).